A well-deserved defeat against Shakhtar by a poor Barça side that is still unconvincing (1-0)

The FC Barcelona has contested this Tuesday surely his more uncomfortable party of what goes of season. The Barcelona team has visited in Germany to the Shakhtar Donetsk by the fourth day of the Champions League and for the first time in this course has had to lidiar with a very low temperature on the field, around the 9 degrees centígrados in Hamburg, added besides to one of the worst fields that remember in the European tournament in the last time, surely like consequence of this cold already mentioned.

The culés went out to look for the triumph in the Volksparkstadions German, where the Shakhtar plays of venue in Europe, clearly limited by what was a nearer lawn to a meeting of Third Division in some championship of league that of the tournament of clubs more important of the continent. However, the reality is that it was a precarious situation for both teams and like this remained showed very fast with errors in exit of the Ukrainians, in a lot of opportunities by not being able to affirm on the field.

A start something promising of the Barça that did not last in the time

Like this it tried the Barça achieve recoveries in rival field, and even in the area of the guardameta Riznyk, where Lewandowski committed him a strong fault to the '1' in his attempt to recover the balloon. The first 15 minutes of party would be with a tonic very similar, with a shot diverted of Ilkay Gündogan included, although the first action of real danger would be for the venues.

Matviyenko Took advantage of the back of Cancel to receive a pass to the space, but appeared Ter Stegen to put the body and stop the balloon in the short stick to the 16 minutes. In the reply was Raphinha the one who received in right band, recortó to the centre and tested luck, although his finish left high, in an action that left to see the spaces that left the Shakhtar when it tried to approach to the Barcelona goal.

From these two played until the almost 40 minutes the party went in in a dynamics of faults, imprecisions and little available space for both teams, with played in which even the referee of the party, the bosnio Irfan Peljto finished in the lawn to the not being able to brake with normality his careers. But in these instants the Shakhtar filled even more of doubts to the Barça when taking advantage of a tool that clearly was trying during all the first time: the aerial game.

A desatención very costly for the defence culé

Gocholeishvili Projected by the right band of his, taking advantage of the little defensive support of Ferran Torres and put the balloon in the point of penal and for a Sikan that elevated and knew to take to against leg to Ter Stegen. Christensen -especially- and Araújo were surpassed by the centre and Joao Cancel remained very far of the Ukrainian forward in the moment of the finish. 1-0 for the Shkahtar and to the rest for a Barça that added more doubts after his 'grey' split the Saturday in Anoeta.

The second time would begin for the culés with an offensive still very imprecise and a defence that followed allowing that the Ukrainians approached to the goal of Ter Stegen with free spaces and one some fault of intensity. Although Ferran warned with a finish to the 49', Xavi understood that the team needed a drastic change and before the hour of party did ingresar to four footballers: Joao Félix, Pedri, Lamine and Balde.

Changes that could not help to the Barça

The four 'headlines' went in in Hamburg and almost immediately could leave his stamp in the field afterwards that Yamal and Félix will commission to create a lot of danger by his respective bands, especially taking advantage of his freshness and the shrinking of the lines of the Shakhtar. The state of the lawn neither much less had improved, but yes that the intensity of the team saw altered of positive way, although it was evident that some like Lewandowski, Cancel or Gavi did not finish to feel comfortable in the party.

The big problem for Xavi is that his changes did not alter too the already described. The '9' Pole could not find in a good position in any moment, Gavi finished going out of the field by Fermín and the Shakhtar felt comfortable holding the party in his own field, with the lawn of Hamburg like big ally. The imprecisions did not disappear neither when the Ukrainians seemed no longer have energy to complete the party, although yes they knew that 'lose' time was the ideal to try achieve three very valuable points for his aspirations to be in eighth of final.

Technical index card of the party: Shaktar Donetsk 1-0 FC Barcelona

• FC Barcelona: Ter Stegen; I Cancel, Araújo, Christensen, Alonso (Balde, min. 58); Oriol Romeu (Pedri, min. 58), Gündogan, Gavi (Fermín López, min, 81); Ferran (Joao Félix, min. 58), Lewandowski and Raphinha (Lamine, min. 58).
• Shakhtar Donetsk: Riznyk, Matvyenko, Valerii Bondar, Gocholeishvili, Rakitskiy, Sudakov, Stepanenko (Nazaryna, min 72), Kryskiv, Zubkov and Danylo Sikan (Kevin Kelsy, min 63).
• Referee: Irfan Peljto.
• Incidences: corresponding Party to the fourth day of the Champions League 2023-2024.
• Goals of the party: 1-0, Sikan (min. 40)

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